"It was vanity, it was, as you say; it was the peacock in me made me be the friend of many women and not the husband of one.

I came down here to Quebec from the Far West to get away from consequences.

It was expensive.

I had to sacrifice.

Well, here I am in trouble again--my last trouble, and with the wife of a man that I respect and admire, not enough to keep my hands off his wife, but still that I admire.